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Building Harlequin's moon / Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper.-1st ed.

p. cm. "A Tom Doherty Associates book." ISBN-13: 978-0765-31266-2 ISBN-10: 0-765-31266-2 1.
Space colonies-Fiction. 2. Space ships-Fiction. I. Cooper, Brenda, 1960-. II. Tide.

PS3564.I9B85 2005

813'.54-dc22

2004063766

First Edition: June 2005

Printed in the United States of America

0987654321




To THE MEMORY OF ROBERT FORWARD




From Brenda:



I'd like to thank Larry Niven for taking on this project with me. Larry has had a longtime rule against
collaborating with amateurs, and since this is my first novel-length work, I definitely qualified, at least
when we started. This has been a multiyear project. I'm sure there were times when he was ready to
throw away the manuscript, but instead he just pointed out ideas and characters that needed work, and
helped me through; most important, he always believed in me. His hands, ideas, and words are
throughout this novel, but like every good teacher, he made me write my way out of most of my messes.
Any messes left in here are mine alone. Thanks, Larry!

Personal thanks as well to my family: to my dad, who explained the concept of mass multiple times, and
asked about the book every time he talked to me (sure that I was doing great, even when I wasn't); to
my mom; my son, David; and daughter-of-the-heart Lisha; my partner, Toni; and to Cindy Ross and Joe
Green. Thanks also to Marilyn Niven, for being supportive of this project.
From Brenda and Larry:



Thanks to our agent, Eleanor Wood, for believing in this project, and for reviewing a very early draft and
providing excellent suggestions. Thanks to Bob Gleason from Tor, our editor.

Thanks to Yoji Kondo, the rocket scientist and science fiction writer who writes as Eric Kotani. We
needed a pair of stars to fit our story-to become Apollo and Ymir-and Yoji found them for us.